How to Get an Online Degree for you Life Experience

Most adults  have learned a lot of things over the years, unfortunately we live in a world where your knowledge counts for very little unless you have some sort of credential to prove it. The good news is that there are a lot of colleges out there that will give you a degree based on what you already know.

There are a couple of ways to do this, the first is to find a school that will allow you to test out, that's a subject for another post, in this one will look at getting a degree by Prior Learning Assessment.

In order to get a degree based on what you already know you are going to have to put together a portfolio that shows what you know and how you learned it. Some of this will come from courses that you may have taken over the years but most of it will be based on your work experience.

Whether or not you can get a degree by prior learning assessment is going to depend in part on how much experience you have and on how well documented it is. You will need to talk to the school that you intend to go through to determine exactly what their policies are and what you will need to provide them to get degree credit.

If you don't have enough experience for a degree it might still make sense to go through the assessment process as in many cases they will grant partial credit reducing the number of courses tha that you have to take.